Nancy Steele

First Name: Nancy
Last Name: Steele
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon oaths that the said Nancy Steele . . . at the Poor House of said District was found dead that she had no marks of violence upon her except what was caused by the rope around her neck by which she was hanging from a limb of a tree about half a mile from the house & that she evidently came to her death by her own hands.

COD Short Description: 
hanged self
Original Record: 
2369

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